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Video shows sabotage in the Congo. Vandal cuts ribbon that was holding up a bridge.
Wordpress ^ | September 9, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 09/08/2022 10:00:17 PM PDT by grundle

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To: griffin

And don’t forget, monthly $2.3 billion payments for maintenance from Uncle Sam.


21 posted on 09/08/2022 11:41:34 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: lee martell

The ribbon bridge is made up of special potoon units which are placed in the water from one shore and extended by adding additional units that link like pieces of a puzzle. This goes on until they reach the other shore.

Can handle combat vehicles from jeeps and large trucks to small armored vehicles, but not the Abrams tanks which is why the 54th Combat Engineers and elements of the 299th made rubber boat amphibious assaults on enemy positions on the east side of the river to seize the much larger and stronger concrete bridge for the tanks to use.

Story, in part was on the cover of Newsweek in mid-April.


22 posted on 09/09/2022 12:25:19 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: grundle

Hilarious video. Same people that stole the farms in South Africa and are now starving?


23 posted on 09/09/2022 12:39:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: grundle

I hate it when that happens


24 posted on 09/09/2022 1:12:59 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: laplata

If you watch the video (it’s short) it is an appropriate headline


25 posted on 09/09/2022 1:14:07 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: laplata

Perhaps it should have screamed
Another example of white supremacy


26 posted on 09/09/2022 1:14:56 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: grundle

It must have been built by NASA.


27 posted on 09/09/2022 1:36:43 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: griffin

Nice post. You pretty much sum up the graft of the United States’ federal government.


28 posted on 09/09/2022 3:16:54 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: grundle

I suspect the vandal took the handle.


29 posted on 09/09/2022 3:22:01 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: Equine1952

“The Ghost and the Darkness” is one of my favorite films (despite the claim of inaccuracies).


30 posted on 09/09/2022 3:22:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: grundle
Cultures don't exist in a vacuum. They aren't built on thin air, but on foundational belief systems. The belief systems of Africa support tribalism and violence.

Without the introduction of different belief systems, cultures cannot shift away from tribalism and the violence endemic to tribalism.

We can even see this in the U.S. When the Left destroys the belief systems undergirding our culture, mores and behaviors devolve.

Like peeling an onion.

Once the Judeo/Christian belief system is peeled back, whatever lies beneath becomes the operating cultural foundation.

So the question is, what preceded Judeo/Christianity in the West?

And another question is, why don't secular people--atheists and agnostics--understand this very simple fact?

31 posted on 09/09/2022 3:50:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: grundle

When the ribbon used in the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new bridge is a structural component of the bridge, you might be in Africa.


32 posted on 09/09/2022 4:27:52 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: laplata

Gotta watch the video. The moment the woman cuts the ribbon, the foot bridge they’re standing on collapses.


33 posted on 09/09/2022 5:12:35 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: grundle

Africa wins again!


34 posted on 09/09/2022 5:19:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: griffin

“After spending 3.7 million USD on it, the local warlord drove away in his new Escalade.”

Just like they do here.


35 posted on 09/09/2022 6:16:57 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Nifster

Thanks.


36 posted on 09/09/2022 7:34:22 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Nifster

You’re right. It’s a wonder it didn’t.


37 posted on 09/09/2022 7:41:08 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: grundle

Hmmm... Looks like someone forgot to put up the sign: “Maximum 4 people on bridge at any time.”


38 posted on 09/09/2022 11:20:22 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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